ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'rest_framework' I already installed djangorestframework

Question

I got an error,ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'rest_framework' when I run command python manage.py runserver . Traceback says

Unhandled exception in thread started by <function check_errors.<locals>.wrapper at 0x108193ae8>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/xxx/anaconda/envs/env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/utils/autoreload.py", line 226, in wrapper
    fn(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/Users/xxx/anaconda/envs/env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/core/management/commands/runserver.py", line 113, in inner_run
    autoreload.raise_last_exception()
  File "/Users/xxx/anaconda/envs/env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/utils/autoreload.py", line 249, in raise_last_exception
    six.reraise(*_exception)
  File "/Users/xxx/anaconda/envs/env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/utils/six.py", line 685, in reraise
    raise value.with_traceback(tb)
  File "/Users/xxx/anaconda/envs/env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/utils/autoreload.py", line 226, in wrapper
    fn(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/Users/xxx/anaconda/envs/env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/__init__.py", line 27, in setup
    apps.populate(settings.INSTALLED_APPS)
  File "/Users/xxx/anaconda/envs/env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/apps/registry.py", line 85, in populate
    app_config = AppConfig.create(entry)
  File "/Users/xxx/anaconda/envs/env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/apps/config.py", line 116, in create
    mod = import_module(mod_path)
  File "/Users/xxx/anaconda/envs/env/lib/python3.6/importlib/__init__.py", line 126, in import_module
    return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 978, in _gcd_import
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 961, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 948, in _find_and_load_unlocked
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'rest_framework'

I already run command pip3 install djangorestframework,when I run this command again, Requirement already satisfied: djangorestframework in /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages shows in terminal.Python version is 3.6.2.What is wrong in my code?How should I fix this?I use Anaconda virtual environment.

Answer 1

It looks as if pip3 install has installed the package into /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages, instead of your environment /Users/xxx/anaconda/envs/env/lib/python3.6/site-packages.

If you use python -m pip, then the package will be installed in the same version of python that you use when you run python manage.py runserver. This is the suggested command in the Python docs.

python -m pip install djangorestframework

Answer 2

Did you add rest_framework in your setup?

INSTALLED_APPS = [
'rest_framework',
'django.contrib.contenttypes',
'django.contrib.admin',
'django.contrib.auth',
'django.contrib.sessions',
'django.contrib.messages',
'django.contrib.staticfiles',
]

May be this post will help you. Have a look.